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Foreigners granted temporary protected status

Other land and associated surface water

Recreational land and associated surface water

Water resources (2 definitions)

Percentage rural

Percentage urban

Protected Area

Marine Park

Marine Pollution

Alpine Area

Area Source

Catchment Area

Recharge Area

Area sampling

Counterpart reference area

Reference area

Advanced Treatment Technology (waste water)

Artificial Water Impoundment

Brackish Water

Confined Water Well

Drinking Water Standards

Dystrophic Water

Hard Water

Humic Water

Net Abstraction of Water

Net Duty of Water

Offstream Use of Water

Population Equivalent (in waste-water monitoring and treatment)

Potable Water

Protection of Ambient Water

Salt Water Intrusion

Saprobic Water Classification

Storm Water

Surface Water

Waste Water

Waste-water Treatment

Water Abstraction

Water Conservation

Water Cycle

Water Erosion

Water Hyacinth

Water Lily

Water Mining

Water Pollution

Water Quality

Water Quality Classes

Water Quality Criteria

Water Quality Index

Water Quality Monitoring

Water Supply System

Water Table

Water Treatment

Water Use

Water Withdrawal

Water-based Disease

Water-related Disease

Biological Spectrum

Economic territory (of a country)

Preliminary Treatment

Cetacea

Crustaceans

Mariculture

Repayable margins

Mining, manufacturing and utilities

Mudflats

Government units

Local government

Economic territory (of an international organisation)

Green Ban

Noise Abatement

Unit response rate

Tangible non-produced assets

Natural Assets

Riparian Habitat

Saturated Soil

Sedimentation Tank

Counterurbanization

Drainage Basin

National Parks

Zoning

Country identifier

Geographical coverage

Population (3 definitions)

Afforestation

Biodiversity

Biotope

Clear-cutting

Dissolved Oxygen (DO)

Dredging Sludge

Ecoregion

Evaporation Ponds

Land Tenure

Microclimate

Monoculture

Pandemic Disease

Population Density

Reforestation

River Basin

Urban Sprawl

Vegetation Cover

Wildlife Reserve

Land

Urban population

Shares of GDP

Forward rate agreements (FRAs)

Air Quality Standards

Arid Zone

Desertification

Emission

Exotic Species

Intensive Agriculture

Noise Zoning

Overlay (in mapping)

Protection against Erosion

Rain Shadow

Recreational Land

Semi-arid Zones

Slash-and-burn Agriculture

Slums

Surveillance System

Topography

Watershed

Wildlife Refuge

Wind Erosion

Foreigners admitted for humanitarian reasons (other than asylum proper or temporary protection)

Foreigners seeking asylum

Ontology

Subsidy on a product

Tax on a product

Taxes on lotteries, gambling and betting

Epilimnion

Estuary

Field Capacity

Impoundment

Influent

Bacterial Count

Biomass

Ecological Footprint

Stream Flow Regulations

Fertilizers

Waterborne Disease

Crude birth rate

Crude death rate

Crude divorce rate

Crude marriage rate

Depletion of natural economic assets

Foetal death rate

Foetal death ratio

Infant mortality rate

Mulch

Agricultural Run-off

Bank Filtration

Biomonitoring

Corrosion

Dissolved Solids

Dual Flushing System

Evapotranspiration

Flocculation

Freshwater

Hydrology

Leachate

Offstream Fish Farming

Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

Red Tide

Alkalinization

Artificial Recharge

Asbestos

Benthos

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)

Cholera

Coliform Index

Cyclone Collector

Dam

Dendrocoelum Lacteum

Discharge

Dual Purpose Sewer

Environmental Media

Groundwater Reservoir

Groundwater Surface

Hydrolysis

Hydroponics

Hydropower

Infiltration

Informal Settlements

Lahar

Loading

Oil Dark

Particulate Loadings

Permeability

Plankton

Polysaprobe

Raw Sewage

Recharge

Reservoir

River-regulating Reservoir

Sedimentation

Sewage

Skimming

Soil Drainage

Transpiration

Turbidity

Urbanization

Weather

Rural population

Forest Functions

Non-point Source of Pollution

Terracing

Wetland

Overland Flow

Sewerage Network

Air Basin

Artificial Watercourse

Bacterial Purity

Biodegradation

Biologic Erosion

Biological Waste

Biosphere

Check Irrigation

Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)

Chlorination

Cladophora Blanket Weed

Coastal Zone

Comminution

Cooling Tower

Denitrification

Digester

Dilution

Environmental Conditioning

Geomorphology

Groundwater Run-off

Heat Sink

Incineration with Recovery of Energy

Instream Aeration

Instream Use

Land Reclamation

Limestone Scrubbing

Liming

Monitoring

Nitrogenous Oxygen Demand (NOD)

Outfall Sewer

p.p.m./p.p.b./p.p.t.

Percolation

Phosphorus

Photosynthesis

Precipitation-effectiveness Ratio

Scrubber

Scum Collector

Sheet Erosion

Silt

Sludge

Soil Sealing

Sullage

Transboundary Pollution

Urban Run-off

Waste Stabilization Pond

Weathering

Aeration

Civil register

Civil registrar

Coagulation

Complete civil registration

Dilution Ratio

Dual records system

Excursionists (also called "same-day" visitors)

Foreign excursionists (also called "same-day visitors")

Hydrologic Cycle

Irrigation

Maternal mortality rate

Neo-natal mortality rate

Tertiary Treatment

Disclosure analysis

Background Station

Built-up and Related Land

Carrying Capacity

Creaming

Ecodevelopment

Feedlot

Green Belt

Line Transect Sampling

Physical Accounting

Rare Species

Recruitment

Salinization

Selective Cutting

Squatter Settlements

Tropical Forest

Vulnerability

Activated Carbon

Activated Sludge

Air Curtain

Algae

Beef Cattle Feedlot

Capacity of Treatment Installation

Detergent

Drip Irrigation

Dual Supply System

Electrodialysis

Escherichia Coli (E. Coli)

Hypolimnion

Multiple Land Use

Overpumping

Precipitation

Run-off

Schistosomiasis

Sewer

Slow Sand Filtration

Trickling Filter

Person-years lived

Acid Deposition

Agricultural Waste

Bacteria

Biological Treatment Technology

Blue-green Algae

Building Codes

Catch per unit of effort (CPUE)

Channelization

Chemical Treatment (of hazardous waste)

Chromium

Closed Ecological System

Coastal Lagoons

Coliform Organism

Contaminant

Denudation

Desalinization

Dew Point

Diatomaceous Earth

Disinfection

Dredging

Energy Sources

Enrichment

Environment Statistics

Environmental Disease

Environmental Services

Erosion

European System for the Collection of Economic Information on the Environment (SERIEE)

Fen

Filtration

Flue Gas

Fluorosis

Groundwater

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)

Land Drainage

Life-support System

Mechanical Treatment Technology

Natural Resource Accounting

Nitrate

Oil Spill

Osmosis

Overgrazing

Oxidation Pond

Phenols

Pollution

Pollution Abatement

Pollution of Poverty

Protection against Natural Hazards

Rainwater

Septic Tank

Sewage Lagoon

Sinking

Soil Conditioner

Soil Conservation

Storm Tank

Swamp

Waterlogging

Population aged 0-14

Population aged 12-14

Population aged 15-17

Population aged 15-24

Population aged 15-59

Population aged 15-64

Population aged 18-23

Population aged 5-14

Population aged 6-11

Population aged 60 or over

Population aged 65 or over

Population aged 80 or over

Population aged  0-4

Population growth rate

Women aged 15-49

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